So Can I expect to play any Square-Enix games in my PS3 this year?

[The Anarchyz]

twesterm said:

1. If you live in Japan you might see FFXIII this year but that's an awful big maybe.  Personally I don't think it's going to happen.
   
2. To you people saying SO4 bombed-- RPG's (especially JRPG's that don't have Final Fantasy in the title) generally don't sell well. 200k is respectable.  Hell, I wouldn't be surprised to see the JRPG go the way of the point and click adventure.
   

 

You could say that 200k respectable speech if we say new IPs or regular JRPG franchises, but, this is STAR OCEAN, not at the heights of the huge ones: Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, but its one of the ones that manage to pass the million line...

Look at Star Ocean: Till the End of Time sales:

Japan: 500k (400k first week)

US: 740k (Probably between 250k and 500k first week)

EU: 90k

Total: 1.33M (1.24M with only Japan+US)

Now look at Star Ocean: The Last Hope sales:

Japan: 185k (160k first week)

US: 60k first week (With a 16.58 million userbase, it's not like Japan)

Total: 245k

If the game continues to sell like this in the US and Japan, i'll be surprised if it gets to half of SO3 numbers, and that's really bad for the franchise...